I looked out of the window today and saw this amazing contrail pattern.

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福 (fu): The Chinese character meaning lucky or prosperous.

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Another hard frost this morning – and ice crystals all over the skylight window.

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Smoulder (v): To burn slowly or with a low intensity and little flame.

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A hard frost the last couple of days – and misty mornings as the sun comes up and moisture rises off the warming ground.

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Sunrise, shot slightly earlier than in previous pictures, and with the sky still quite a deep shade of blue.

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Our first true night shot of the year. Street lamps in the foreground echo those mapping out the town in the distance.

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Another sunrise photo – pink, orange and midnight blue clouds on the horizon below a clear sky.

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Tonight the clouds departed as sunset approached – so here’s a striking image of a winter sunset in a clear sky.

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It’s common to see birds gathering on TV aerials as the afternoon draws to a close. Sometimes we even get a flock of starlings swooping about as dusk falls. Not quite a full-scale murmuration – but, who knows, we might get one of those some day.

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Navigable (adj): A watercourse along which boats may safely pass.

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These windblown sunset clouds reminded me of nothing so much as the turbulent bands that make up the atmosphere of the planet Jupiter.

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Sunny for most of the day – almost springlike – but a few clouds rolled up to give us an impressive sunset. Later these gold-bronze and grey tints turned to deep pink and inky blue.

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High cirrus cloud against blue sky.

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This ticket for a 2008 performance of La Bohéme at the Royal Opera House fell out of a library book yesterday, having been used as a bookmark.

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This captures the moment this morning when the cloud started to lift after a spell of rain. A few minutes later the sky was blue and full of little fluffy, innocuous clouds.

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“Pink sky in the morning, shepherd’s warning…”

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Filthy weather today – rain and high winds. The picture above was taken amid a brief spell of sleet. However, the afternoon brought blue skies and the evening an excellent view of Jupiter as it sat abreast the moon.

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Today could not have been more of a contrast with yesterday – cloudless blue skies for most of the day, enough cloud by the afternoon for an impressive sunset then a clear sky during the evening offering a lovely view of the moon and nearby Jupiter.

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Conk (n): The fruiting body of a fungus that grows on rotting wood, typically a shelf or bracket fungus.

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